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> I didn't call it "faraway" -- as far as I recall, this was the word
I used -- from a Polonocentric or a landlubber's perspective (for a
Pole, Denmark lies just round the corner and is anything but exotic),
but from the point of view of the Pontic Scytho-Sarmatians.
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> I know something about the history and historical geography of
Denmark ("continental" as well as "insular") and Scandinavia. The
history of the Danes as a sea people is entangled with the early
history of both England (I teach the history of English) and Poland
(our countries' spheres of political interests overlapped in the SW
Baltic area). Sweyn Forkbeard's wife and Canute the Great's mother,
Sigrid (Sventoslava), was a Polish princess. If there are any
differences of opinion between us, I don't think they have to do with
my different perception of Denmark and its affairs :)
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> Piotr
Sigh.
I was afraid my remarks might be appreciated as the vindictive remarks
of a offended Danocentric. Which of course they were, too.
But, to put it shortly, since you are aware of the importance of
transport by sea in Denmark's recent history, how come this
geographically determined water-destiny doesn't apply earlier? Or,
rather, why are you so sure these *D-n- river peoples had no ships?
Torsten